2025 PM Workshop Series
Thursday, January 09, 2025, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Category: Events
ASAMW PM Workshop Series - January 9, January 23, Feb 6, Feb 20, March 6, -March 20, 2025 Cost: $795 members/nonmembers Register Here (Only two representatives from each company, please)
PROJECT MANAGERS FUNDAMENTALS I
- Team Building Exercise
- Building relationships in the industry
- Ok to ask silly questions
- Construction process and the big picture of a construction project
- The project manager’s role
- Why general contractors think differently than subcontractors
- Leadership and team building
- Communications and documentation including sample logs for RFIs, Change Orders and Work in Progress reports.
- Time and stress management
- Decision making
PROJECT MANAGERS FUNDAMENTALS II
- Project start up and planning
- Reading and understanding specifications
- Submittals and purchasing: the getting of the right materials on time
- RFI’s, and the tracking of issues
- Work in Progress reporting including sample logs
- Completing and closeout of a project
- Elements of bad project management
- Problem prevention
- Foundational Skills in communication, networking and management
- Networking and construction associations
- Building relationships for repeat work
- Intergenerational communications
- Adapting to COVID-19.
PROJECT MANAGERS FUNDAMENTALS IIl
Safety
- How working together with your Safety Managers, Superintendents, and foreman will save you time and money when it comes to safety.
- What are the time delays and hidden costs involved by not considering the safety requirements?
- What are equipment requirements to complete work on-site?
- Basic OSHA cost considerations for noncompliance.
Soft Skills
- Selecting the right mode of communication to match the situation
- Developing empathy in communication
- Resolving conflict
- Preventing conflict
CONTRACTS
- Flow down provisions of the prime contract
- Subcontract clauses and what they mean
- Government contract clauses
- General and Special provisions of the specifications
- Second tier subcontracting
- Purchase orders
- Read and understand schedule before signing the contract
- Scope inclusions and exclusions
THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE
- Elements of a logical schedule
- How to contribute to a schedule prepared by others
- Coordination with other trades – understanding, cooperating and being sensitive to other trades
- Resource management
- The Schedule and No Damages for Delay clauses of your subcontract
- Management of a project that has no schedule
- Actions to take if a project is behind schedule
- Using a SIPS/4 week look ahead
- Work breakdown structure
- Cost loading for proper cash flow
- Pushing a job
- Dealing with changes
CHANGE ORDERS
- Notice and other requirements of the prime contract and your subcontract
- Preparation of a typical proposal for direct costs
- Allowable overhead and profit, and mark ups on lower tier subcontractors
- Simple time extension cost proposal
- Settlement techniques
- Establishing credibility and avoiding fraud – false information can be fraud.
- Protecting yourself while performing work without a change order
- What is FAIR in back charges and what is abuse
- Following up techniques for settlements
- The change order process from the general contractor’s perspective
*Course information is subject to change slightly.
*Course information is subject to change slightly.
Date
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Course
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Instructors
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Preferred Location
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Jan. 9, 2025
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PM Fundamentals 1
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Ameen Khouri, Shapiro & Duncan
Mark Drury, Mark Drury and Associates
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Capital Electric
8711 Westphalia Rd
Upper Marlboro, MD
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Jan. 23, 2025
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Contracts
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Brian Wood, Smith Currie Bill Rothrock, Kogok
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Capital Electric
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Feb. 6, 2025
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PM Fundamentals 3
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Ted Warrington, Kogok (Safety)
John Livingston, Well Built (Soft Skills)
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Capital Electric
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Feb. 20, 2025
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PM Fundamentals 2
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Steve Groth, Retired, Bruce Spengler, Calvert Masonry
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HITT CoLab
2757 Hartland Road, Falls Church, VA
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Mar. 6, 2025
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Scheduling
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John Ficca, Aegis
Steve Groth, Retired
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HITT CoLab
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March 20, 2025
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Change Orders and Final Exam
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Bruce Spengler, Calvert Masonry, Tim Loftus, Donohoe
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HITT CoLab
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